Guidelines for Project Work

* 1. The optimum No. of group members is4 and can have a maximum of 5. If the No. is more than 5, some individuals are likely to contribute nothing to the work.

2. In forming the group, it is natural that the friendship among the members becomes an important factor. But at the same time care should be taken to consider weak students in the class to form a mixture of students with theoretical interest and practical interest and co-ordination skills.

3. It will be convenient to have a project leader for the easy interaction with the guide / co-coordinator. It should be noticed that the leader do not have a special privilege in awarding the marks or any other consideration.

How to Select The Project Topic ?

. In case of mini projects the completion and final observable outputs are expected. The planning and the selection of the topics should therefore be done with good care.

2. In the case of major projects some times it is so natural that we will not be able to finish the entire work within the prescribed time schedule depending on the nature of some topics. This will not be treated as the failure of the group provided the work is of such a gravity and the amount of work finished by the group constitute the key / major part of such topics. A junior batch can think of finishing the remaining part of the topic in such special cases.

3. It should be noticed that we are not going to have some increased credits for the novelty of the idea alone. Credits will be given for the completion of the work, the total performances of the group and their involvement in the assignment etc, once the idea is been approved by the co-coordinator.

4. In fact there require no comparison with the topics of other batch / groups. We should only select topics which is well with in the span of knowledge and capacities we posses and such ideas which could be implemented with the time schedule and facilities available in the institution

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5. It will be better to select hardware oriented topics for the mini project. In the case of main projects, software oriented projects like MATLAB algorithm development in signal Processing, Image Processing and Neural Network problems can be selected. Implementation of selected IEEE or other relevant papers can also be considered in this contest. We should ensure in this case that a distinct contribution could be made by us in solving the problem.

How To Plan The Assignment?

There should be a well detailed planning of the task for the successful completion of the same. The major points to be considered in such a planning can be summarized as below.

a) Time should be given for preliminary study / literature survey of the topic, component selection and their availability study, design, bread board implementation and testing, final implementation on PCB, report preparation and presentation. If out side consultancy / expert opinion is required, this should also be well planned in advance. It is suggested to prepare a detailed time table with all the details mentioned here.

b) work should be divided among group members so that each individual should have participation in the intelligent part of the project other than data collection, report preparation etc.

c) There should be proper interaction with the project guide and the co-coordinator. The project file should be updated every week with the details of the work finished, data collected on components and design aspects, short coming s in achieving the goals etc. This will be useful at the final end in preparing the project report.

How to Write the Report?

The report is very important document on the work we have finished and should be prepared with at most care and attention. Next is a short guide line for the report preparation.

THE GENERAL FORMAT

1. The Preliminaries

a) The title Page

b) Preface (Including acknowledgments and abstract)

c) Table of contents (Mention page numbers against